"I don't mind telling people that there was no pregnancy, and no abortion," said Representative Scott DesJarlais, who is running for reelection, in his first comments on the scandal. "But I also don't mind telling people that this was a protracted two-year divorce back in 1999 and 2000. There was some difficult times, for sure." DesJarlais, as reported by the Huffington Post this week, taped himself pushing a woman — a patient he'd been sleeping with while working as a physician — to have an abortion, in hopes of showing the recording to his wife and saving his marriage. Needless to say, it did not work out, although apparently he got all worked up and outed himself as a huge hypocritical sleaze for nothing.

I don’t really care that she wasn’t actually pregnant, if he thought she was pregnant and pressed her for the procedure.

Come to think of it, even if he knew she wasn’t pregnant, he can’t object to abortion on moral grounds when his immoral acts caused him to advocate for what he would consider an immoral procedure in order to attempt to appease judgement of those immoral acts.

But how will we know to abort only the gay liberal fetuses? No, the ethical thing to do is to wait until they grow up gay or liberal, and then kill them. That’s what the Bible says, or if it doesn’t, it should.

Ohh!! He wasn’t actually proposing abortion to his mistress. He was PRETENDING to be proposing abortion to his mistress so his wife would think.. wait, what exactly? “Thank god my husband is aborting his illegitimate fetus, now I know he really loves me?”

This gives me a great idea for a reality show focused on a very specific kind of practical joke. We recruit the mistresses of anti-abortion types, outfit them with hidden cameras, and have them tell their arch-conservative lovers that they’re pregnant. Then we’ll watch what happens.

State medical boards are not fond of the whole sex with patients thing. Even sex with former patients can be problematic. This admission could lead to an investigation that adversely affects his licensure.

So, he threatened his victim/ex-wife with a gun and once held a firearm in his own mouth for hours and he goaded (“pretended to”) his victim/patient/paramour to an abortion.
See the pattern?
He has a thing for playing life and death scenes.
Heavy handed manipulator, violent drama queen.

He shouldn’t be a physician. Or congresscritter.
Who the hell trusts this man?

It’s quite common for defenders of traditional values to be caught in extramarital affairs or popping pills of dubious legality. For some reason, such scandals appear to be much rarer for abortions. (There were only two instances here and I’m sure they were thorough.) Maybe we uptight reactionaries really do take abortion more seriously than mere vices.

A corollary to the above: You can’t blame the pro-life movement on hatred of pleasure.